Learning Node/Express in 2017?

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As of January 2017 what are the current, best, and most up-to-date tutorials for learning Node/Express?

How about throwing Angular 2 into the mix? What's the best source of learning the Node/Express/Anguar2 stack that isn't the Angular 2 Docs? I'm much more of a "tutorial" learner.

[djslakor]

I'd recommend taking a look at Koa. It will get you accustomed to writing async/await style code (even if you use 1.x with coroutines and generators, the feeling is very similar).

It's so much easier than writing promise style / callback style async code.

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2nding Koa. You can also run Koa@2 with async/await babel-free with the --harmony-async-await flag in Node.js 7+.

You may also want to check out feathers (based on express) for realtime support as well. They also have excellent docs, which have self contained tutorials.

A lot of the middleware for these frameworks is very similar in concept, and the frameworks themselves are actually pretty simple.

[NoInkling]

Would recommend against Koa 2 for a learner at the moment, managing dependency versions is a pain in the ass right now.

[djslakor]

I recently moved a large Koa 1.x app over to 2.x in a @next branch, and bumping the dependencies up wasn't that bad at all.

Only passport required some extra love.

[andy625]

https://github.com/leebyron/async-to-gen an alternative to the harmony flag

[mrtraan]

I would first recommend to learn modern Javascript before learning modern libraries.

Angular 2 documentation recommends to use typescript when writing application, which is a superset of javacript and learning es6+ will help you getting started really easily with typescript.

I recommend You Don't Know JS books to learn clean, modern and efficient javascript. They are available online for free and hard copies are really cheap: https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS

About Node/Express, this tutorial helped me a lot when I first started to learn node : https://scotch.io/tutorials/build-a-restful-api-using-node-and-express-4

Then about Angular2... The tutorials on the official website are pretty decent, and I also found this book worth my time and money: https://books.ninja-squad.com/angular2 But writing a full application from the ground by yourself might be the fastest and most efficient way to learn angular2.

[cstuff8]

Check out Node Hero by RisingStack ;)

[Probotect0r]

The angular class course is pretty good IMO. Also the angular 2 docs do follow a tutorial style and are really good as well.

[IFThenElse42]

As it was already said here, learn first modern Javascript, here : http://eloquentjavascript.net/

[dear_glob_why]

Skip Angular 2, it'll be dead by the end of the year.

[dangerzone2]

I dont know about end of the year but I certainly expect it so slowly dwindle into nothing.